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In Mumbai to open an office of the Grameen Foundation, Professor Yunus spoke on the growing role of microfinance in the …
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Multiple Meanings of Money: How Women See Microfinance by Smita Premchander, V. Prameela, M. Chidambaranathan, L …
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Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There are many schemes taken by NABARD to improve the agricultural sector but there ahead which...
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A unique data-set from Indonesia is analysed to understand what individuals know about the income distribution in their village to test theories such as Jackson and Rogers (2007) that link information aggregation in networks to the structure of the network. The observed patterns are consistent...
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The Self-Help Emergency Prevention (SHEPherd) programme aims to use lessons from CRS/Orissa’s emergency responses in 1999 and 2001 to inspire an India-wide response to emergency prevention. The programme has witnessed first-hand the ability of SHGs to mobilize poor families and...
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The present study attempted to assess the performance of Fisherwomen's self help groups (SHGs) in Tamil Nadu . Primary data required for the study were collected from 725 fisherwomen SHG members representing 41 SHGs from five coastal villages - Tharuvaikulam, Pazhayakayal and Therespuram in...
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of their engagement with microfinance. With a lower borrower-member ratio and relatively smaller sized credit …, microfinance for the poorest may take longer to achieve sustainability. Even within the ultra poor household group, the better …-off ones are more likely to engage themselves with microfinance. Their engagement in semi-formal microfinance does not reduce …
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Using data from a survey of clients of a microfinance bank, Khushhali Bank, in 2005, the study revisited the survey …
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The paper looks at the growth and commercialization of microfinance in India. It starts out be looking at how the … commercial microfinance has evolved internationally by discussing two specific examples and then moves on to examine the … specifics cases of four large microfinance institutions in India. The basic argument of the paper is that most of the early …
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A study was undertaken in Madaripur brothel to understand condom use reality within the social context of the commercial sex workers' (CSW) lives in brothel and to critically analyze BRAC's HIV/AIDS programme's effectiveness in condom promotion. It was found that the chukris (bonded sex workers)...
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